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Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.


Peter Benenson


#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

My conclusions, on this point, are as follows: when the Law Commission says committal of judgment debtors is an anomaly that cannot be justified and should be abolished; when it is common cause that there is a general international move away from imprisonment for civil debt, of which the present committal proceedings are an adapted relic; when such imprisonment has been abolished in South Africa, save for its contested form as contempt of court in the magistrate's court; when the clauses concerned have already been interpreted by the Courts as restrictively as possible, without their constitutionally offensive core being eviscerated; when other tried and tested methods exist for recovery of debt from those in a position to pay; when the violation of the fundamental right to personal freedom is manifest, and the procedures used must inevitably possess a summary character if they are to be economically worthwhile to the creditor, then the very institution of civil imprisonment, however it may be described and however well directed its procedures might be, in itself must be regarded as highly questionable and not a compelling claimant for survival.


Albie Sachs


#debt #foreign-law #freedom #human-rights #law

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.


Emma Goldman


#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.


Thom Gunn


#bishop #elizabeth #francisco #i #imprisoned

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.


Willa Cather


#art #away #element #elusive #hurrying

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.


Mahatma Gandhi


#chain #destroy #even #imprison #me

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.


Ma Jian


#allowed #apology #been #being #chinese

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.


Mathias Rust


#hard #harder #hit #i #imprisonment

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.


Joseph de Maistre


#could #desire #desires #explode #fortress

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.


Zebulon Pike


#demand #fines #imprisonment #justice #personal






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